boat vs EQVPS Sandboxes

boat costs $0.009 per vCPU-hour and EQVPS Sandboxes costs $0.04 per vCPU-hour. boat runs full VMs and has no session limit. EQVPS Sandboxes runs Firecracker microVMs and limits a session to 720 hours.

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boat

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
7-day free trial with 25 hours of compute
Max session
No limit

EQVPS Sandboxes

Isolation
Firecracker microVM
Free tier
$1 sandbox credit, one time
Max session
720 hours

What is different

10 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

boat
EQVPS Sandboxes
vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
Free tier
boat: 7-day free trial with 25 hours of compute
EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
EQVPS Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
EQVPS Sandboxes: Per second
Max session
boat: No limit
EQVPS Sandboxes: 720 hours
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20
Isolation
boat: Full VM
EQVPS Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
Pause and resume
boat: No
EQVPS Sandboxes:

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boat: $0.009
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.04
RAM, per GiB-hour
boat: Included
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.013
Storage
boat: Free
EQVPS Sandboxes: Free
Free tier
boat: 7-day free trial with 25 hours of compute
EQVPS Sandboxes: $1 sandbox credit, one time
Paid plan from
boat: $20 / month
EQVPS Sandboxes: Pay as you go
Billing
boat: Bundled machine time
EQVPS Sandboxes: Per second

Limits

Max session
boat: No limit
EQVPS Sandboxes: 720 hours
Idle stop
boat: Not listed
EQVPS Sandboxes: After 5 minutes
Largest sandbox
boat: 16 vCPU · 32 GiB
EQVPS Sandboxes: 8 vCPU · 16 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boat: Up to 2,000
EQVPS Sandboxes: Up to 20

Platform

Isolation
boat: Full VM
EQVPS Sandboxes: Firecracker microVM
GPU
boat: No
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
Snapshots
boat:
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
Pause and resume
boat: No
EQVPS Sandboxes:

Developer

SDKs
boat: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
EQVPS Sandboxes: Python, JavaScript / TypeScript
Integrations
boat: MCP, Claude Code
EQVPS Sandboxes: MCP, Claude Code

Trust

License
boat: Not listed
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed
BYOC
boat: Not listed
EQVPS Sandboxes: Not listed

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boat
EQVPS Sandboxes
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boat: $0.009
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.066
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boat: $0.018
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.132
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boat: $0.036
EQVPS Sandboxes: $0.264

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boat fits when

  • A session must run longer than 720 hours.
  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.018 against $0.132 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.
  • You need snapshots.

EQVPS Sandboxes fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need pause and resume.

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